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ISRAELI GOVERNMENT TO REFUSE ENTRY TO UN TEAM INVESTIGATING
WAR CRIMES IN GAZA

Posted on November 13, 2014 by jstp - The Human Rights Council
in session. (Photo: UN/Jean-Marc Ferré) Common Dreams
 by Sarah Lazare - Israel announced Wednesday it will refuse
entry to United Nations human rights investigators who seek to
probe potential war crimes committed in the latest 50-day military
assault on Gaza.

The 47-member UN Human Rights Council in July approved the
inquiry into all violations of international humanitarian
law and international human rights law in the Occupied Palestinian
Territory, including East Jerusalem, and the occupied Gaza Strip
in the context of military operations conducted since mid June,
focusing on the actions of Israel as well as Hamas. Twenty-nine
nations voted in favor of the investigation, with the U.S. issuing
the sole no vote.

In a Wednesday evening statement reported by numerous media
outlets, Israels foreign ministry spokesperson Emmanuel
Nahshon announced that Israel will not cooperate with the rights
councils commission, which is headed by international law
professor William Schabas.

As a result, the investigators will not be allowed to enter
Gaza through the Erez crossing, which is under Israels
control. The Rafah crossing was recently closed offby the Egyptian
government, meaning that entry is likely to be difficult for
the UN team. In his statement, Nahshon accused the rights council
of obsessive hostility toward Israel, echoing Israels
previous condemnation of the investigation as a kangaroo
court.

Critics charge that the UN, in fact, does not go far enough,
as U.S. veto power prevents the international community from
acting on this and other inquiries, including the Goldstone Report,
which reviewed a previous Israeli military attack on Gaza in
2009.

Nahshons statements are in keeping with Israels
repeated dismissal of criticisms for the war on Gaza, which killed
at least 2,194 Palestinians, at least 75 percent of them civilians
and over 500 of them children. Seventy-two Israelis, six of them
civilians, also died in the conflict. Israel destroyed over half
of Gazas hospitals and health centers and struck six UN
schools sheltering Palestinians, including in cases where the
UNRWA formally submitted coordinates of the shelters to the Israeli
military. Israel has been accused of possible war crimes in the
offensive by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and UN
High Commissioner for Human RightsNavi Pillay.

This is not the first time Israel has publicly criticized
the rights council. Israelsevered ties with the body in 2012,
following the councils launch of an investigation into
Israeli settlements in the West Bank, considered illegal under
international law.

Its business as usual for Israel to commit severe
human rights violations and war crimes and refuse to be held
accountable, Ramah Kudaimi of the U.S. Campaign to End
the Israeli Occupation told Common Dreams. Now its
time for the international community to take real action and
sanction Israel.

World Bulletin/News Desk - November 13, 2014 - Netanyahu
said Israel was committed to preserving the current situation
at holy sites in East Jerusalem, the Jordanian royal court said
in a statement.

Jordanian King Abdullah II on Thursday met in Amman with
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US Secretary of
State John Kerry to discuss means of restoring calm to Jerusalem
and also establishing a climate conducive to reviving stalled
Palestinian-Israeli peace talks.

Netanyahu said Israel was committed to preserving the current
situation at holy sites in East Jerusalem, the Jordanian royal
court said in a statement.

King Abdullah, the royal court said, underlined the importance
of Jordanian responsibility for Jerusalem's holy sites.

It added that the King also called for practical Israeli
measures to preserve the current situation in Jerusalem, especially
in Al-Aqsa Mosque. Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi had
received a phone call from Jordanian King Abdullah II during
the meeting in Amman, the Egyptian presidency said.

The Jordanian King had briefed the President about the consultations
he made with Netanyahu and Kerry, presidential spokesman Alaa
Youssef said in a statement on Thursday.

He added that al-Sisi had underlined the importance of reaching
a final settlement for the Palestinian-Israeli conflict within
the framework of the two-state solution, which leads to the establishment
of a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital.

Earlier this month, Jordan  which is responsible for
Jerusalem's holy sites in line with a 1994 peace treaty with
Israel  recalled its ambassador in Tel Aviv to protest
Israeli "violations" in East Jerusalem. Continued:

The Jordanian king told Kerry that a "livable Palestinian
state within the pre-1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its
capital" was the only way to achieve peace. http://www.worldbulletin.net/haber/148330/jordans-king-slams-israeli-attacks-on-al-aqsa

US DENIES PLANS FOR NEW ISRAEL-PALESTINE PEACE PROPOSAL

State Department says Israels announcement of additional
settlement construction flies in the face of commitments.

A handful of extremist settlers  also under Israeli
police protection  performed Talmudic rituals near the
Al-Rahmeh Gate, according to the Palestinian official. Dozens
of Jewish extremists backed by Israeli police on Wednesday stormed
the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem, a Palestinian
official has said.

"Around 40 settlers, under Israeli police protection,
forced their way into the Al-Aqsa compound through the Al-Magharbeh
Gate," Sheikh Azzam al-Khatib, head of the Jordan-run Organization
for Muslim Endowments and Al-Aqsa Affairs, told Anadolu Agency.
"The intruders, including members of the extremist 'Women
for the Temple' organization, were led by hardline rabbis and
wandered into the courtyards of the holy site," he said.

"The rabbis gave settlers lessons in the Talmud near
the Al-Qiballi and Marwani mosques," he added.

THINGS ARE ESCALATING IN JORDAN
Samantha Davis lives in Jordan reports on War Central: Date:
Monday, 22-Sep-2014 18:48:10
Each day the situation is getting worse. So far we can account
for 100 arrests (20 in my town alone)and two car bombs and a
speedboat incident.

Jordan times reported this: AMMAN  The army on Saturday
night destroyed a jeep that tried to illegally enter the Kingdom
from Iraq, a Jordan Armed Forces (JAF) source said Sunday. Warning
shots were fired at the speeding vehicle, but were ignored and
the driver continued to move towards the border, the source told
the Jordan News Agency, Petra.
In line with the rules of engagement, the army destroyed the
vehicle, according to the JAF source.
In a separate incident, the source said Royal Naval Force (RNF)
personnel also foiled an attempt by a speedboat to illegally
infiltrate Jordanian waters from a neighbouring state. The infiltrators,
whose nationality was not disclosed, ignored the warning shots
fired by the RNF and continued to approach, forcing security
personnel to shoot at the vessel and halt its advance. The two
Arab nationals found on the boat are currently being interrogated,
according to the JAF source. Most of what is going on is not
reported though. Last night 100 meters from my home ISIS placed
grafitti on the prison (now closed) in multiple places in large
letters about the king. This in itself would get anyone jail
time or worse. To say one word against the king is forbidden.
What alarms me is that it is so close to my home.
The roads are jammed with police presence everywhere. Tonight
went to stock up at Safeway and half of Jordan was there. It
is alarming and eirie. Guess everyone had the same ideal. Better
to stock up now. We can only hope we will be ok but I happen
to be in the midst of the war I fear. Samantha Davis Reporting
on War Central

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ISLAMIC STATE CALLS FOR THE INVASION OF JERUSALEM
NTEB News Desk | November 4, 2014 | The ultimate goal is ISIS
has always been the destruction of Israel

And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies,
then know that the desolation thereof is nigh. Luke 21:20

The allied rocket strike attacks on ISIS in Syria and Iraq
have certainly slowed down their forward momentum, but has not
even come close to stopping them. The Russian Times today reports
that the Islamic State has seized its second oil field
in Syria in a week:

Islamic State militants claim to have gained control
of the Jahar gas field in central Homs province from the Syrian
army. The militants posted pictures on social media boasting
of the capture, which they now consider part of their Caliphate.
The photos depict an Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) flag raised
over the field as well as captured Syrian tanks and weapons,
says SITE, a jihadist web monitoring service. IS says they have
captured two tanks, seven four-wheel drive cars, and several
machine guns after clashes with regime forces. Last Thursday,
the insurgents took control of the Shaar gas field, where
they killed at least 30 pro-government soldiers, according to
the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR).

The mere fact that ISIS is still about to do that after a
month of allied bombing shows you how ineffective the strikes
truly are. But this battle that has been raging for months now
is about one thing and one thing only  Israel. Today the
Islamic State made the announcement that revealed their true
intentions.

http://www.nowtheendbegins.com/blog/?p=27928

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ISIS 'TO SET UP CALIPHATE IN SINAI'

As 'first step towards Jerusalem'; threatens Egyptian army.

03 November, 17:05 - CAIRO, NOVEMBER 3  The Islamic
State (ISIS) has issued a statement saying that an Islamic Caliphate
will be established in the Sinai, calling it the first
step towards the invasion of Jerusalem. The statement threatens
Egyptian security forces, which were suffered an attack on October
24. ISIS urged jihadists in the region to destroy police
checkpoints and stations, launch RPGs at their gatherings and
show the world that the Rule of God must be imposed.

As the prophets have declared, Jerusalem is the end game
in this spiritual battle. Everything that is happening right
now will reach its true fulfillment in the battle of Armageddon
during the time of Jacobs trouble.

Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it:
it is even the time of Jacobs trouble; but he shall be
saved out of it. Jeremiah 30:7

For now, the Islamic State seems to be on a preordained unstoppable
path that began with the formation of a caliphate in Iraq and
ends in an attack on Jerusalem. Just how much they will be able
to accomplish only God knows. But they are giving it their best
shot which so far has been surprisingly effective. These are
the days written of by the prophets, the actors have taken the
stage as we watch the play unfold. Birth pangs, prophecy, and
the blessed hope.

SHOCK AS ITS REVEALED ISIS ARMY NOW HAS SWOLLEN TO OVER 200,000
WAR FIGHTERS

Shock As Its Revealed ISIS Army Now Has Swollen To Over 200,000
War Fighters
NTEB News Desk | November 15, 2014 | 16 Comments

A sign of the military professionalism of ISIS is the speed
with which they learned to use captured US tanks, artillery and
other heavy equipment captured after the fall of Mosul on 10
June.

He estimates that Isis rules a third of Iraq and a third
of Syria with a population of between 10 and 12 million living
in an area of 250,000 square kilometres, the same size as Great
Britain. This gives the jihadis a large pool of potential recruits.

Proof that Isis has created a large field army at great speed
is that it has been launching attacks against the Kurds in northern
Iraq and the Iraqi army close to Baghdad at the same time as
it is fighting in Syria. They are fighting in Kobani,
said Mr Hussein. In Kurdistan last month they were attacking
in seven different places as well as in Ramadi [capital of Anbar
province west of Baghdad] and Jalawla [an Arab-Kurdish town close
to Iranian border]. It is impossible to talk of 20,000 men or
so.

http://www.nowtheendbegins.com/blog/?p=28241&

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US GENERAL - IRAQ NEEDS 80,000 GOOD TROOPS TO RETAKE LOST
TERRITORY

WASHINGTON Thu Nov 13, 2014 9:47pm EST - (Reuters) - Iraq
will need about 80,000 effective military troops to retake the
terrain it lost to Islamic State militants and restore its border
with Syria, the top U.S. general said on Thursday. "We're
going to need about 80,000 competent Iraqi security forces to
recapture territory lost, and eventually the city of Mosul, to
restore the border," Army General Martin Dempsey, the chairman
of the Joint Chiefs of staff, told a congressional hearing. Dempsey
said the request for more U.S. forces in Iraq would create centers
to help train the additional troops needed. (Reporting by David
Alexander and Phil Stewart; Editing by Doina Chiacu)

13 November 2014 Thursday - Ibrahim Canakci, Turkish member
of IMF's Board of Directors said his new position is very important
for Turkish presence in international economic coordination

World Bulletin/News Desk

Turkey's new representation on the International Monetary
Fund's Board of Directors will give the country a strong voice
in shaping global economic supervision, the Turkish member of
the body said on Thursday.

And, thanks to the reform of voting rules at the organization,
the new director will wield greater voting power.

Former Treasury Undersecretary of Turkey, Ibrahim Canakci
was appointed to the IMF Board of Executive Directors on July
17 and took office on Nov. 1. Continued: http://www.worldbulletin.net/turkey/148311/turkey-to-wield-more-power-at-imf

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CHINA'S SILK ROAD CHALLENGES U.S. DOMINANCE IN ASIA

U.S. officials fear the new Chinese-led institutions will
lend to projects that are unable to secure financing from other
multilateral institutions, rendering the conditionality ineffective.
"The Silk Road, no longer just a concept in history books,
has evolved into a story of modern logistics and Sino-European
cooperation," Yang Jiechi, China's top diplomat, told a
conference this month.

The New Silk Road Economic Belt - from China across Central
Asia and Russia to Europe - and the 21st Century Maritime Silk
Road - through the Malacca Strait to India, the Middle East and
East Africa - have become the centrepiece of China's economic
diplomacy. The belt and the road, as China's diplomats refer
to them, are the focus of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
(APEC) summit in Beijing. They aim to cement China's emerging
role at the heart of the 21st century economy. Continued:

THE BELT AND THE ROAD, AS CHINA'S DIPLOMATS REFER TO THEM,
ARE THE FOCUS OF THE ASIA-PACIFIC

ECONOMIC COOPERATION (APEC) SUMMIT IN BEJING.

They aim to cement China's emerging role at the heart of
the 21st century economy. China's President Xi Jinping has pledged
$40 billion to a new Silk Road fund for investing in infrastructure,
resources and industrial and financial cooperation across Asia.

Chinese diplomats have also been busy promoting a new Asian
Infrastructure Investment Bank, promising to provide half of
its $50 billion start-up capital, to help build ports, roads,
power projects and other desperately needed infrastructure across
the region.

The Silk Road fund and Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank
pose a direct challenge to the traditional primacy of U.S.-dominated
financial and trade institutions in the region, including the
International Monetary Fund, World Bank and Asian Development
Bank, all of which were set up following the U.S. victory in
World War Two.

U.S. diplomats have been manoeuvring furiously to limit the
impact of China's economic diplomacy. In the past month, Australia
and South Korea both declined to join the new Infrastructure
Investment Bank following intense lobbying from officials in
Washington, which went all the way up to Secretary of State John
Kerry and President Barack Obama himself.

The construction of the Economic Belt along the Silk
Road and the Maritime Silk Road in the 21st Century
will become a major point of penetration for China to implement
a full foreign development strategy, and will have a profound
significance to Chinas opening up strategy in the future.
 Mr. Wang Jun, the deputy director of the Consulting &
Research Department of China Center for International Economic
Exchanges (CCIEE), said in a interview by a journalist from the
Securities Daily that the construction of the economic
belt would promote further common development and prosperity
of China and countries along the economic belt, and help realize
regional economic integration, and develop Chinas new international
competitive advantages. http://www.gdiex.com/news/info_93.aspx?itemid=573

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CHINA LAUNCHES ASIA BANK TO CHALLENGE US-BACKED LENDERS

World Bulletin/News Desk - October 24, 2014 Australia, Indonesia
and South Korea skipped the launch of a China-backed Asian infrastructure
bank on Friday as the United States said it had concerns about
the new rival to Western-dominated multilateral lenders.

China's $50 billion Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
(AIIB) is seen as a challenge to the World Bank and Asian Development
Bank, both multilateral lenders that count Washington and its
allies as their biggest financial backers.

Officially, U.S. diplomats are concerned about governance
standards at the new institutions. There are fears about the
large share of the voting rights that will go to China and the
willingness of the new institutions to lend for projects that
do not meet the social and environmental criteria currently employed
by multilateral development banks.

Under intense pressure from the United States, the World
Bank and Asian Development Bank will no longer finance coal-fired
power stations due to concerns about climate change. But many
countries, including India, have indicated they intend to continue
building coal-fired plants to bring electricity to millions of
homes that are currently without secure and affordable access
to modern energy.

U.S. officials fear the new Chinese-led institutions will
lend to projects that are unable to secure financing from other
multilateral institutions, rendering the conditionality ineffective.

But there is a deeper, unspoken fear that the new institutions
will be used to enhance China's leadership at the expense of
the United States and its traditional allies in Asia including
Japan, South Korea and Australia.

In the run-up to the APEC summit, U.S. diplomats have sought
to keep the focus on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a proposed
U.S.-led regional trade deal, rather than the broader Free Trade
Area of the Asia Pacific, promoted by China.

It is part of a mounting economic, political and military
competition between the United States and China across the region.

BALANCE OF ECONOMIC POWER

Asia-Pacific is not the only area where the post-war economic
and financial leadership of the United States and its network
of allies is being challenged.

The U.S. pivot to Asia is being matched by a similar move
on the part of Russia, which has sought to reduce its dependence
on the United States and Europe by upgrading its economic ties
with China. In the past six months, Russia has signed two major
deals to supply natural gas to China, which has become Russia's
most important trading partner.

In July 2014, China, Russia, India and Brazil reached agreement
on a $100 billion New Development Bank to be headquartered in
Shanghai. China and Russia have also been busy promoting economic
and military ties across Central Asia through the Shanghai Cooperation
Organisation.

The major financial and economic institutions, which experts
sometimes call the "international financial architecture",
no longer correspond to the balance of power and the shifting
centre of gravity in the world economy.

The International Monetary Fund, World Bank and regional
development banks are all dominated by the United States and
its allies in terms of voting rights, capital structure, headquarters
location and staffing.

Efforts to reform them to give a greater role to China and
the other fast-growing developing economies have largely proved
unfruitful.

The multilateral lending institutions are severely undercapitalised
and have nowhere near enough resources to meet the enormous infrastructure
needs across Asia, Africa and Latin America.

The result is that many multilateral institutions appear
to be outdated, too small and entrenched in colonialist approaches
to development.

TRADE AND FINANCIAL FLOWS

There is still an assumption that economies of developing
countries are defined by their relationship with their more developed
counterparts. But that world has vanished over the last decade.

More than half the exports from developing economies were
sent to other developing economies in 2013, according to the
World Trade Organization ("International Trade Statistics
2014").

Countries in Asia sent more than 60 percent of their exports
to other nations in Asia and to Africa and the Middle East, compared
with just over 15 percent each to North America and Europe.

As the world's greatest export powerhouse, China has accumulated
vast foreign exchange reserves and is now becoming a major supplier
of capital.

Prior to the financial crisis, that capital was tied up passively
and uselessly in U.S. Treasury bonds. Now China wants to use
its capital more productively to invest in infrastructure in
its major trading partners and at the same time buy more economic
and political influence.

There is nothing new in the idea that countries seek to turn
financial capital into political power. Britain pursued the same
approach in the 19h century, and the United States has done so
successfully since World War Two.

Market access and capital can all be traded for various forms
of influence. The Marshall Plan traded U.S. economic assistance
in European reconstruction for a pro-American orientation in
European foreign policy.

As the balance of power within the global economy shifts,
it is inevitable that the international economic architecture
will have to evolve.

Some western foreign policy specialists have naively assumed
that emerging markets would become integrated into existing post-war,
western-dominated structures of power and governance.

But it was always at least as likely that those institutions
would have to adapt and change to accommodate the rising economic
and financial power of emerging markets.

Just as access to American markets and capital was once a
key component of U.S. diplomacy, China is now employing its financial
and trade muscle to win friends and influence.

World Bulletin/News Desk Update: 09:46, 11 November 2014
Tuesday - U.S. President Barack Obama said on Monday a successful
China was in the interests of the United States and the world
but Beijing had to be a partner in underwriting international
order, and not undermine it.

Referring to growing concerns among U.S. and other companies
about the Chinese business environment after arriving in Beijing,
Obama also urged China to reject the use of cyber theft for commercial
gain and create a more level playing field where policy is not
used for the benefit of some firms over others. Obama's trip
to China for an Asia-Pacific summit comes at a time of growing
China-U.S. friction, with Washington trying to expand American
interests in Asia while Chinese President Xi Jinping demonstrates
more willingness than his predecessors to demonstrate Beijing's
clout on regional issues. http://www.worldbulletin.net/haber/148133/obama-urges-china-to-be-partner-in-ensuring-world-order

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PM: UKRAINE'S MAIN TASK IS TO BUILD ARMY TO STOP RUSSIA -
UPDATED

Increasing violence, truce violations and reports of unmarked
armed convoys travelling from the direction of the Russian border
have aroused fears that a shaky Sept. 5 truce could collapse.
World Bulletin/News Desk

Ukraine's top priority is to build an army strong enough
to stop Russian military aggression, Ukrainian Prime Minister
Arseny Yatseniuk said on Friday, as he made his recommendations
for senior positions in a new coalition government.

GEMMA'S VISIT
by Barry Chamish - It is mid-November '14, and my exile from
Israel in a not unpleasant north Florida city is broken by a
visit from Gemma Blech, the photographer of my book Bye Bye Gaza;
http://www.lulu.com/content/575116
She meets with a broken writer; I suffered a minor stroke barely
a month ago and through ridiculous circumstances broke 3 ribs
barely a week before. I suffer through more than mere intimations
of my own mortality. I feel it coming soon. She asks, "Do
you remember how we first met?" I had forgotten but her
lively memory brought me back to the early days of "peace."
Israel had just signed away the Sinai in the Wye Accord, I knew
it was step one to its end and I printed and publicized Israeli
flags in black to protest. Gemma had to have one and invited
me to her home in the French Hill district of Jerusalem.
And she was not alone. Another flag buyer became my writing partner,
Joel Bainerman. He died a few months ago aged 57. The cause was
his seminal work on Iran Contra, Crimes Of A President, published
in 1992, barely two months before my book, The Fall Of Israel
(Canongate Publishers, Edinburgh, Scotland), which documented
the country's fatal sell-out. Both books exposed the finagling
of Israeli Prime Minister and later President, Shimon Peres,
in the deliberate deception that led to Oslo "peace,"
and our uncannily close partnership led to a long article in
March '97 in the conservative stalwart The National Review entitled
The Peres Gambit.
We were so young and naive. We actually believed that truthful
journalism published at the highest level could make a difference
and save our nation from an inevitable demise. Stupid us. Had
Joel chosen a career in life insurance sales he'd be alive today.
Had I gone for a lucrative career in corporate advertising I'd
be looking forward to my best days in a retirement filled with
do-gooder hobbies justified by a good show when I had my best
mental faculties.
Instead, Joel's last days were spent alone and far from Israel
in Cyprus while I suspect the same fate awaits me shortly in
Florida.
Gemma, Joel and I formed a most unlikely alliance fighting to
save our land. I sadly have concluded we were suckers and ruined
our lives for Israel.
"Nonsense," she insisted. "The truth is coming
out at last..." both in the underground:
"Starting in June 1991, Peres had sent Yossi Beilin to Egypt
four times to make an agreement with the PLO. At the King Hotel
in Cairo, Beilin offered Said Kamal and Mahmud Abbas, two Arafat
aides, a deal; in return for the PLO shifting Arab-Israeli votes
to Labor in the upcoming national elections, the Labor party
would cancel the law which forbids meetings with the PLO, freeze
Jewish settlements, and give recognition to something close to
a state. The meetings were reported in the Israeli daily Hadashot
by Arab affairs analyst, Yehoshua Mieri, and by two Egyptian
newspapers, Al-Gomhouriya and Al-Wafd " http://rense.com/general23/chm.htm"
And in the mainstream media which mocked Peres for his deceitful
epitaph at a Rabin memorial this year in a knowing, he murdered
him, poke-poke, jab-jab way.
Oh Gemma. Really? Way back in the hopeful days, just before the
Gaza pullout, the "settlers" actually believed Sharon
was on their side and would never force them from their homes,
but we were getting data from the top that betrayal was on the
way:

"A decade later Joel Bainerman and I spent an afternoon
interviewing Menachem's son, Benny Begin. He was very coy with
the facts we sought but, nonetheless, provided vital testimony.
His father's war had been fought
mostly to reverse a deal reached by Kissinger, Rabin and Syrian
President Assad in 1975. Assad wanted Israel off the Golan Heights,
Rabin couldn't deliver so Kissinger came up with a neat idea.
Syria wanted Lebanon just
as much, so let's give her it. We'll ignite a civil war and Israel
will allow Syrian troops in to bring peace. [email ]

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POPE TO GIVE FINAL MARCHING ORDER TO PRESIDENT PERES
by Barry Chamish - Pope Francis: ... "I wish to invite you,
president Mahmud Abbas, together with President Shimon Peres,
to join me in heartfelt prayer to God for the gift of peace,"
he said at the end of an open-air mass in Manger Square in Bethlehem.

"I offer my home in the Vatican as a place for this
encounter of prayer," he said. "Building peace is difficult,
but living without peace is a constant torment. The men and women
of these lands, and of the entire world, all of them, ask us
to bring before God their fervent hopes for peace."

Peres, according to Leah Rabin in her autobiography, was
educated in a Jesuit school in Poland. The underhistory only
gets worse. Jesuit Pope Francis commemorates the Franciscan Order,
which along with the Benedictines, organized Operation Paperclip
in the late '40s to hide over 100,000 Nazis in their seminaries,
give them new identities, and ship them to freedom largely in
South America. The Vatican saved the Nazis, while Israel is its
lengthening history has convicted only one nazi in its courts.

Perhaps, given what has been done to them in living memory,
we can explain the utter lack of reasoning among the Jews, even
at their highest levels. Look at this wacky reportage of a publicized
incident of the papal tour by the editor of The Jerusalem Post:

In one of his blander pronouncements during the papal visit,
Netanyahu mentioned on Monday that Jesus spoke Hebrew. There
was nothing incorrect about Netanyahu's statement. Jesus was
after all, an Israeli Jew. But Francis couldn't take the truth.
So he indelicately interrupted his host, interjecting, "Aramaic."

Netanyahu was probably flustered. True, at the time, educated
Jews spoke and wrote in Aramaic. And Jesus was educated. But
the language of the people was Hebrew. And Jesus preached to
the people, in Hebrew.

This is so wrong, it borders on total delusion. Educated
Jews spoke Hebrew in religious ceremonies but Aramaic was the
common language of Israeli Jews at the time of Jesus. Creating
false history has made Jews accessories to their own recent disasters.
Peres, who has never sincerely prayed to any G-d known to the
Jews, is not going to the Vatican to pray with any pope. Time
is running out, Peres didn't deliver the Vatican their "properties,"
and he is going to Rome to get his final marching orders. - See
more at: http://www.barrychamish.com/Newsletters_2014/

October 13, 2014 | Thomas Rose Share - Even as details of
the latest ISIS plot to behead innocents on the streets of London
emerges, the

machinery of the European Unions massive bureaucracy
is well along its plan to impose crippling economic and cultural
sanctions on Israel if the Jewish state does not agree to unilaterally
withdraw behind the 1949 Armistice lines. The Times of Israel
and other sources are now reporting that EU officials are preparing
a far reaching list of sanctions that can be imposed against
Israel whenever the EUs political

leadership decides to proceed with efforts to economically
devastate the small but heavily trade-dependent Jewish state.

The essence and purpose of the plan, coming just weeks after
the end of Hamas 50 day terror war against Israel, is not
only to punish Israel economically but to deprive the small but
vibrant democracy of its political legitimacy; something that
the international community, including the

EU, extends to virtually every other country on earth, including
Cuba, North Korea, and Iran.

The revelations of the latest EU plans come on the heels
of Swedens decision earlier this week to become the first
sitting member of the 28 nation EU to recognize the so-called
State of Palestine." Four Eastern European members
of the EU voted to recognize Palestine in the 1980's

when they were Warsaw Pact puppet states firmly in the orbit
of the former Soviet Union.

The latest Israeli outrage to which the EU and
others, including US President Obama and Secretary of State John
Kerry, are taking such offense, is the announcement by the Israel
Lands Authority to solicit private sector tenders for the construction
of roughly 2600 apartment units

slated to be built in Jerusalems burgeoning Givat Hamatos
neighborhood. In fact, there is nothing at all new in these plans,
which have long been a part of Jerusalems municipal development
plan and were first announced more than three years ago. Read
more at http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/2014/October13/132.html

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ABBAS HAS SLAMMED THE DOOR SHUT ON THE PEACE PROCESS

At the moment, Abbas has slammed the door shut on the peace
process. Meanwhile, Netanyahu has not declared a day of national
mourning. He has had his fill as well. "The Palestinians
have realized," a high-ranking Palestinian official told
me at the start of October, "that they have

nothing more to look for in their negotiations with the Jews.
It's a waste of time. We would be better off approaching the
international community directly and try to break the impasse
there."

And Netanyahu? On the one hand, he feels somewhat relieved.
Negotiations do not agree with him. He loses ground with the
right wing, taking heavy flak from his own Likud Party while
enhancing the standing of Minister of Economy and Trade Naftali
Bennett and Foreign Minister Avigdor

Liberman. As far as Netanyahu is concerned, the negotiations
can disappear forever. On the flip side, however, this is a perilous
notion, and Netanyahu should break into a sweat at reviewing
such a scenario.

What the Palestinians are planning to do in lieu of negotiations
is to approach the UN Security Council with a detailed resolution
to establish an independent Palestinian state side by side with
Israel. Abbas, who is almost 80 years old, would not have reached
such a ripe age or

attained his position had he not been a foxy, wise and calculating
person.

His resolution proposal will incorporate all the things the
Americans have already agreed to during the long years of negotiations.
The United States will find it hard to object to such a proposal,
because it does not contain anything substantive that it has
not already supported.

Abbas' working assumption, however, is that in the end, the
United States will veto the resolution. Continued: http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/2014/October13/133.html

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MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD IN THE WHITE HOUSE HISTORIC FALSE FLAG
CONSPIRACY

The real reason Obama's Airstrikes Are Failing Evangelist
Anita Fuentes Published on Oct 12, 2014 Includes actual infrared
footage of Live fighting in Khobani in start of broadcast. This
powerful and eye-opening broadcast will expose: - ISIS is Sunni,
ISIS is Al Qaeda, Al Qaeda is Sunni, Sunni is Muslim Brotherhood,
Obama is a Sunni and Muslim Brotherhood, get the picture? - The
Sunni Muslim Regime in charge of the White House and why it matters.
- Difference between Sunni & Shia and why we should care
- America's new 'defeat mentality' by design - How all of this
is preparing the way for the coming Anti-Christ - The conquering
of the West - The biggest Jihad is happening right now and more!
ARE YOU READY ? Evangelist Anita Fuentes Website: http://www.emoaf.org/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_yO4qpgsgE

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FORMER US SECRETARY OF STATE HENRY
KISSINGER HAS GIVEN A CHILLING ASSESSMENT OF A NEW GEOPOLITICAL
SITUATION TAKING SHAPE AMID UKRANIAN CRISIS, WARNING OF A POSSIBLE
NEW COLD WAR AND CALLING THE WEST'S APPROACH TO THE CRISIS A
"FATAL MISTAKE."

November 12, 2014 - The 91-year-old diplomat characterized
the tense relations as exhibiting the danger of another
Cold War.

This danger does exist and we can't ignore it,
Kissinger said. He warned that ignoring this danger any further
may result in a tragedy, he told Germanys Der
Spiegel.

Europe may become irrelevant due to short-sighted policies
 Gorbachev

If the West wants to be honest, it should recognize,
that it made a mistake, he said of the course of
action the US and the EU adopted in the Ukrainian conflict. Europe
and the US did not understand the significance of events
that started with the Ukraine-EU economic negotiations that initially
brought about the demonstrations in Kiev last year. Those tensions
should have served as a starting point to include Russia in the
discussion, he believes.

http://rt.com/news/203795-kissinger-warns-cold-war/

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SHALOM DEAR PARTNER AND FRIEND OF ISRAEL

Stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord.
- Exodus14:13

We are certainly living in interesting but dangerous times.
BUT, in everything God is in control! No situation or event can
take place without His knowledge and it is comforting to know
that He is on our side. This months Newsletter is called
 Gaza in Prophetic End-Times and the teaching is
called The Coming Shemitah (Sabbatical) and Jubilee Year
is very significant. If you look back at our Newsletter dated
March 2013 you will see exactly how The Coming Blood Moons
of 2014/2015 is connected.

It appears that as one part of the Middle East quiets down
with the fragile truce between Israel and Hamas,
another starts up. The radical Islamic terror organization, the
Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), has gained a larger foothold
in Lebanon as it faces off against the Lebanese army. Israel
has been keeping a close eye on ISIS activities as their jihadists
threat looms closer to Israel s borders. In Gaza , there
is growing evidence that ISIS has established a foothold there
despite denial by Hamas.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has compared Hamas
to other terrorist groups, such as al-Qaeda and ISIS and yet
others have said ISIS is even worse than Hamas. Hamas has very
successfully marketed itself as the national liberation movement
of the Palestinian people. It is true that it has the so-called
Palestinian agenda, but the major essence of the organization
is its religious one a very radical Islamic Sunni identity.

Hamas and other Islamists terrorist groups that you see around
the world, such as Boko Haram in Nigeria , al-Shabaab in Somalia
, al Qaeda all stem from the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. Although
the Muslim Brotherhood presents itself as a social-economic reform
movement, it is the ideological incubator of these horrific organizations
you see now.

The West is finding it very hard to understand the full meaning
of this transition from the secular political violent agenda
to the religious political violent agenda! These groups have
not only declared war on the U.S. but on Western civilization.
That is why they are defined as the Judeo-Crusader alliance which
means that they want to destroy Jews and Christians. This is
a religious war and Hamas is part of it. It shares the full vision
of the ISIS caliphate.
Hamas is part of these Islamist groups that have declared total
war against the West. It is not as strong as the others
but Hamas today has more than 50,000 men and about 25,000 are
hardcore combatants. They are using the local civilian infrastructure
(in the Gaza Strip) as a firebase against Israel , and in so
doing are committing a double war crime both against their
own people and against Israel . According to international law,
the moment you turn any civilian infrastructure into a firebase,
it becomes a legitimate target for reprisal. You cannot seek
immunity by firing rockets from a school or a mosque, and then
whine that Israel is firing back. [Email]

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ISRAELI MOVE IN EAST JERUSALEM DRAWS US CONCERN
By JOSEF FEDERMAN - JERUSALEM (AP) 11.12.2014  Israeli
authorities gave preliminary approval Wednesday to build 200
homes in a Jewish area of east Jerusalem, a move that threatened
to push Israelis and Palestinians deeper into conflict after
weeks of unrest over the city's holiest sites. The announcement
came hours before U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was scheduled
to arrive in neighboring Jordan on a mission aimed in part at
restoring calm. A State Department spokeswoman said Washington
was "deeply concerned" by the decision.

Much of the recent violence has stemmed from tensions surrounding
Jerusalem's hilltop complex that is revered by Muslims and Jews.
The collapse of U.S.-brokered peace talks, Israel's war last
summer in the Gaza Strip against the Islamic militant group Hamas,
and continued Israeli settlement construction in east Jerusalem
have added to the distrust.

Brachie Sprung, a spokeswoman in the mayor's office, said
city officials approved 200 homes in the Ramot area. Sprung said
it was just a preliminary stage of the planning process 
meaning construction would be years away.

She also said city officials approved an additional 174 homes
for construction in an Arab neighborhood. To Israelis, the announcement
was relatively harmless. Ramot is a sprawling development already
home to about 70,000 people, and most Israelis assume the area
will remain part of Israel under any future peace agreement.

In the current tense climate, however, any Israeli construction
for Jewish areas of east Jerusalem is potentially explosive.

Brendan Smialowski - November 11, 2014 - JERUSALEM (AP) 
It has been a difficult year for Israelis and Palestinians, with
the failure of peace talks and a string of violent incidents
that shows no signs of ending. Here is a look at some key recent
events:

April 24: Nine months of U.S.-mediated peace talks between
Israel and the Palestinians collapse.

May 15: Two Palestinian teens are killed in a West Bank clash
with Israeli troops on the day that Palestinians mark their uprooting
during the Mideast war over Israel's 1948 creation. Video footage
indicates the teens were not participating in violence at the
time of shooting.

June 2: A Palestinian unity government is sworn in, a major
step in reconciliation between the rival Fatah and Hamas factions.
Israel denounces the government because it includes Hamas.

June 12: Three Israeli teenagers  Eyal Yifrah, 19,
Gilad Shaar, 16, and Naftali Fraenkel, a 16-year-old with dual
Israeli-American citizenship  are abducted and killed by
Hamas operatives in the West Bank.

June 13: Israel launches a broad military operation to locate
the teens, arresting hundreds of Hamas members in a crackdown
over several weeks. Hamas militants in Gaza respond with rocket
attacks... Nov. 5: A Hamas militant slams a minivan into a crowd
waiting for a train in Jerusalem, killing two people. Earlier
in day, clashes had erupted at the Jerusalem holy site.

Nov. 8: Israeli police shoot and kill an Arab Israeli protester
at a demonstration in northern Israel. Video indicates the man
was walking away from the officer at the time of the shooting.

Nov. 10: Palestinian attackers kill two Israelis in stabbing
attacks in Tel Aviv and the West Bank. http://globegazette.com/news/world/wave-of-violence-fuels-israeli-palestinian-tension/

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ISLAMISTS IN THE SINAI PENINSULA HAVE FORMED TIES WITH ISIS
AND, CLOSER TO HOME, WITH HAMAS AND SALFIST GROUPS IN THE GAZA
STRIP

What kind of relations do the jihadists of northern Sinai
and Gaza have with Islamic State, and with Hamas? Egyptian President
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi declared a three-month national emergency
this week, following the killing of over 31 Egyptian soldiers
in a suicide car bombing carried out by jihadists in northern
Sinai.

No organization has issued an authoritative claim of responsibility
for the bombing, but it comes amid a state of open insurgency
in northern Sinai, as Egyptian security forces battle a number
of jihadist organizations. Most prominent among these groups
are Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis and Majlis Shura al-Mujahideen; the
attack on the Sinai military base came a few days after an Egyptian
court sentenced seven members of Ansar Beit al-Maqdis to death
for carrying out previous attacks on the army.

In subsequent days, Egyptian officials pointed an accusing
finger at the Hamas rulers of Gaza, asserting there is no
doubt that elements belonging to Palestinian factions were directly
involved in the attack. Cairo is now set to build a new
barrier separating the Strip from northern Sinai.

In a number of Arabic media outlets, unnamed Egyptian government
sources openly accused Hamas members of aiding the assault, assisting
with planning, funding and weapons supply. Continued:

And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies,
then know that the desolation thereof is nigh. Luke 21:20

The allied rocket strike attacks on ISIS in Syria and Iraq
have certainly slowed down their forward momentum, but has not
even come close to stopping them. The Russian Times today reports
that the Islamic State has seized its second oil field
in Syria in a week:

Islamic State militants claim to have gained control
of the Jahar gas field in central Homs province from the Syrian
army. The militants posted pictures on social media boasting
of the capture, which they now consider part of their Caliphate.
The photos depict an Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) flag raised
over the field as well as captured Syrian tanks and weapons,
says SITE, a jihadist web monitoring service. IS says they have
captured two tanks, seven four-wheel drive cars, and several
machine guns after clashes with regime forces. Last Thursday,
the insurgents took control of the Shaar gas field, where
they killed at least 30 pro-government soldiers, according to
the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR).

The mere fact that ISIS is still about to do that after a
month of allied bombing shows you how ineffective the strikes
truly are. But this battle that has been raging for months now
is about one thing and one thing only  Israel. Today the
Islamic State made the announcement that revealed their true
intentions.